It is a well known folk lore that tea consumption has great health benefits. But this folk lore found some scientific evidence in a recent population study done in China, published in the British Journal of Nutrition.

In this study, 2006 men and women were studied to examine the relationships between lifestyle and nutritional choices and length of telomeres. Telomere is a region of repetitive DNA at the end of a chromosome, which protects the end of the chromosome from destruction. Each time a DNA replicates, the length of telomere reduces, down to a point where once the telomere is reduced to nothing, the cell dies.

In this study, the Chinese found that

In men, only tea consumption was significantly associated with TL after adjustment for demographics and lifestyle factors (P = 0.002). Mean difference in TL for those in the highest quartile of tea consumption (>3 cups/d or >750 ml/d) as compared with those in the lowest quartile of tea consumption (less than or equal to 0.28 cups/d or less than or equal to 70 ml/d) was 0.46 kb, corresponding to approximately a difference of 5 years of life.

What does this mean? In plain language, the study seems to indicate that consumption of three cups of green tea protects the cells and increases their lifespan by 5 years. The study population was over 65 years of age, but obviously their tea consumption didn’t start that year. The study is unclear about how long a person would have to drink tea to benefit from the protective effects of green tea. Suffice to say, the longer you consume tea the greater is the benefit likely to be.

Interestingly, the study also found that

In women, intake of fats and oils was borderline and negatively associated with TL after adjustment for demographic and lifestyle factors (P = 0.037).

So, the message from the study seems to be, if you want to live longer healthier life, cut back on fats and oils and increase your consumption of tea. Right now, take advantage of the green tea sale and save 25% on your purchase of 100gms Woodlands Green Tea or 1lb of Woodlands Green Bulk tea

This week’s weekly drawing winner for FREE TEA is customer with email starting with…

KERMES1

If you are the owner of this email address, please reply to us at jayateas[at]gmail.com from the email address you registered on the website. You have the option to receive one of the two items listed below. Please indicate which of the two items you would like to receive in your mail to me:

• A 100gm packet of loose tea or
• a packet of 20 premium nylon pyramid tea bags

Terms of the weekly drawings

Offer is valid only to customers with US postal address. Please give 3-4 weeks for the teas to arrive, although the teas are generally sent by USPS First Class Mail and should arrive within about a week of receiving your response. Since we have many registrants, your email is re-considered for a win only once in six months.

There is no cost to you to receive the teas, and there is no obligation to purchase anything else from Jaya Teas, EVER. However if you enjoy the tea, we hope you will share our website information with your friends, and hopefully visit us again for your own tea needs.

Note to new customers & visitors

If you are a customer who has not yet registered to participate in this program, please feel free to check out this post

Madhu

Up from the high elevations of Nilgiri Hills comes this delicious green tea, Woodlands Green Tea, raw in its power, yet smooth as silk! This tea is certified organic green tea and the longish withered leaf turns in to bright green upon steeping. It produces a light green liquor upon a steep time of 1-1.5 minutes. Recommend upto three steeps out of one tea spoon, with subsequent steep times increasing by 30 seconds each.

This superfine tea is currently on sale - 100gms for only $6.71. You won’t find a better deal for a tea this smooth.

1lbs of this organic green bulk tea comes for only $24.41, compared to $32.55, a savings of over $8, which should more than cover the cost of shipping and then save you some money!

Offer for a limited time only.

-Madhu

This week’s weekly winner is email address starting with mburek. Since Mr. Burek is a regular customer of ours, we have already shipped the free tea(bags) to him! Mr. Burek, congratulations on winning a bag of free pyramid shaped tea bags! We hope you enjoy your tea.

Madhu

Recently our emails to a few winners of the Jaya Teas weekly drawing for “Free Tea” have gone unanswered. While in this day and age it is understandably difficult to trust any email that offers free anything, our problem is, when you sign up to the Jaya Tea weblog you only provide us your email address - not the full contact information. Therefore, if you do not respond to us and provide us your street address, we cannot send you the tea you have won!

So, from now onwards, along with our email to the winner of the weekly drawing, we will also be declaring the winner on our weblog. Of course, we will not share your full email address online for the world to see - that would be irresponsible. We will only use the first few characters of your email address to declare the winner. However you do need to respond to us from the account you registered with us. It is the only way for us to verify that you are the actual owner of the email address.

So, drum roll please…..

The winners of previous weekly drawings are:

• Customer with email string starting with tbird
• Customer with email string starting with dcrews

If you are the owner of the email address starting with the characters listed above, please send me a mail (my email address is jayateas[at]gmail[dot]com) from the email account you registered with us, with your name and complete address. We will then send you your free tea at no cost to you (yes we will cover the shipping cost too).

Alternatively, you can open a secure account on the Jayatea website and provide the information there.

Note: The weekly drawings are open to residents of United States and Canada only.

Enjoy a nice weekend!!

Madhu Joshi